The lens has a specific influence on optic nerve and tectum development in the blind cavefish Astyanax

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 308-317

  Soares, Daphne ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshiyuki ^a   Strickler, Allen G ^a   Jeffery, William R ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; Blind cavefish; Lens; Optic nerve; Optic tectum; Retinotectal projections

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EMBRYO; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ASTYANAX MEXICANUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENGRAILED2 GENE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EYE DEVELOPMENT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LENS; NERVE FIBER; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OPTIC DISK CUP; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC TECTUM; PAX2.1 GENE; PAX6 GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINOTECTAL PROJECTION; TELEOST;

ANIMALS; ATROPHY; AXONS; BLINDNESS; BODY PATTERNING; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; EYE PROTEINS; FISHES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; LENS, CRYSTALLINE; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OPTIC NERVE; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; PAX2 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RETINA; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 15944414391     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000082272     Document Type: Article

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